Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1887-04-10
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THE LABOR WORLD.
TRADE, MANUFACTURING AND INDUSTRIAL.
IMPORTATION
From the Highways and Byways Of the Country.
A Demand that is Constantly Expanding,
With Good Prospects Ahead.
General Notes

SytctW JnTtSpOhdSRcs o. ne Sunday Register.
PHILADELPHIA, PA April S-TO-day's
industrial and commercial summary shows
that Blooms" in business are reported,
notably in the West and northwest. In
the eastern and central states they are less
pronounced. In all the states trade pros
poets are full of encouragement. In every
industry, orders are increasing and prices
are strong. All adyiceS from the South are
favorable. Wholesalers of all kinds Of
merchandise, report a heavy demand in
sight. Manufacturing interests are crowded
with inquiries and orders from locomotives
to hairpins.
A birds eye view Of the country, gives
the following: At Boston, boot and shoe
orders are dropping in for fall delivery.
The merchandise movements from Chicago,
east, west and south has been reaching
enormous proportions. Railroad companies
cannOt load, run and empty fast enough.
A private telegram yesterday stated five
hundred car loads supplies were awaiting
CARS. The rush will be over in three or
-four days. Kansas City, Mo-, has had the
busiest month in its history and profits on
business are larger. At Cincinnati q gene
rl improvement in prices is reported and
the shipments south are very large. At
P,tsburg iron and steel mills are crowded
with business beyond all precedent. At
Louisville, orders are increasing.
EUROPEAN WHEAT FIGURES
show a deficit of POO, UOO, 900 bushels. Last
year American crop was 455, O0O, 600
bushels. Prices are stronger. Flour has
advanced ten cents on the Atlantic and
Pacific coasts. Millers at Milwaukee are
preparing 20 shut down. An Advance in
European sugar IS cabled. Last years
lard product in America was 1857 tierces
less than l-~5. The stock of meats ON
hand March lst were 81, l25, 600 pounds
less than a year ago. Hog packing is ESQ.,
600 ahead OF leS5: Brazilian coffee re-
celpts up - March lst, fell OF two bags OF
q hundred, rs compared to the preceding
season.
At New York, the heavy movement OF
cotton and dress goods continues. There IS
an O~yerplus ofready made clothing Mills
are very busy on all lines of textile goods
throughout New England. Prints have
advanced slightly under a heavy demand
and stocks have declined from i2l 900
pieces a year ago to 1900
For every seventeen bales ct cotton sent
10 Great Britain last season, twenty-three
bales have havn sent this year, and for
every thiTty-twO bales sent abroad to all
countries last year thirty-cight have been
sent this year. The East Indian CIttOn
crop IS 100, 900 bales short.
THE RAILROAD COMPANIES
have been crowded with freight orders for
a month. For every 500 worth of bust
ness done during March, ISSG, SlO5 was
was done during March Of this year. For
two weeks ending April ID $50, 900 tons Of
freight were shipped east from Chicago, or
one third more than ever known for IA like
period. Imports this year, so Tar at New
York have been S13 for every 500 up 10
last year, not including dry goods. \ brisk
demand :ur funds is reported all over the
country. Real estate continues 10 increase
in demand for manufacturing and house
buildings sites.
Late reports from eight Of the larger
cities show that building activity has set
in in earuast. Heavy contracts for mate
rial are placed at lull prices. The Brooklyn
Elevated Road Company has contracted for
l5.pU tons of bridge hon and steel and
2O,uuD tons have been called for in other
markets.
The railmakcrs cannot take all the bust
Drs offered, and ~ rails are 1t an adyan-
tI.r in Great Britain and Europe it is I'M
certain whether all the roads projected
will De built this year. An advance $50
to ~ per ton is predicted. The mills are
everywhere Overruu with orders and new
mills. furnaces and large industrial es;ab-
lIsLmruts will be erected this year, IN n
larger scale than ever before.
THE MANUFACTURERS INTERESTS
throughout the United States are anticipa-
ting Al improving demand and stronger,
prices. Every industry is having its capa-
city enlarged, and capital is accepting every
promising opportunity.
Lumber shipments from the northwest
are limited only by the supply of cars.
Last week common lumber was advanced
81 per thousand at Minneapolis, and 81
Seconds. Prices are firm, and demand is
taking eyerythingtha comes in all markets
east and west. Southern pine is arriving
in northern markets in large quantities,
and sells readily.
The YEAR Isl promises to be the most
prosperous in oar history. The apprehen-
SION is entertained that business will be
pushed too rapidly and that a panic of the
1913 sort will suddenly upset all our
dreams aud calculations. 4 wiser system
OF redistribution Of created wealth would al
low of 4 much greater industrial expansion
than we have ever dreamed OF. Until co.
OOO, 900 people have three square meals a
day aud an extra coat and dress \ piece,
there can he no OyerprOduction.
Revolution of an industrial character
seems to be the order OF the day. Cheaper
methods of manufacture are being de-
yelOped. There Is scarcely an existing in
dustrial process hut which il threatened
by a reyOlutiOnizing invention.
THE WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA
and Eastern Ohio Natural gas companies
are IN the market for thousand Of tOns OF
pipes. The foundry capacity of the country
will be double during the next two years.
\ number Of grain elevators are projected
IN the northwest. Machine shops are to
be erected at Little Rock to employ 1000
men. A great iron making concern is to
start at Chattanooga with Sl2, 600, 900
capital Birmingham, Ala, isturning out
Ioo""o tons Of pig iron per week.
Manufacturing enterprise is seenal over
the west Cheap iron aud lumber have
gwen a boom to building and with 600
mules OF railroad built in the far northwest
SuS year, tue opportunities for all concerns
viii he multiplied.
LAP'oyer' throughout the East aIe mani
eI1IuS a more friendly feeling towards
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